Phrase excerpted from a 1937 Gertrude Stein quotation, There is no there there. 

Originally a lamentation about a demolished childhood homestead, the Stein quotation is being uttered these days so frequently that the sentence has lost its self-referent cleverness -- the latest victim of laziness on the part of politicians and commentators.

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